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Kisume
| キスメ Kisume | |
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 Kisume in Subterranean Animism The Fearsome Well SpiritMore Character Titles | |
| Species | Tsurube-otoshi |
| Abilities | Dropping will-o'-the-wisps |
| Location | Underworld |
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Kisume (キスメ) is the stage 1 midboss of Subterranean Animism. As a midboss with no dialogue and a sparse official profile, little is known about her. She is a rather shy youkai who usually spends her time in buckets. She is often seen in dark places such as caves or wells.
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Concept
Tsurube otoshi (lit. bucket dropper) are a type of youkai believed to have originated in the Chuubu region of Japan. They usually live atop trees, and when humans come close to the tree a bucket or a severed head drops down and eats them. They are also sometimes depicted as flaming spirits. There is also a traditional Japanese proverb somewhat related to her species: "秋の陽は釣瓶落とし", "Aki no Hi wa Tsurube Otoshi", which means "The autumn sun descends like a bucket falling into a well". It is a proverb used to indicate how the days in Autumn get shorter.
Name
According to ZUN, her name is written in katakana to give it an old feel, and it's not written in kanji because "that would make her seem too strong". [1]
Appearance
Kisume has a pale skin with dark teal hair tied up in pigtails by white hair beads. The bucket she sits in is a cherry brown with black hoops near the top and bottom. She wears a white robe with an obi.
Ability
- Ability to the extent of dropping will-o'-the-wisps
It is to literally drop will-o'-the-wisps from the objective that is on top of her head. It probably comes from her species as tsurubebi (釣瓶火, lit. "well-bucket fire"), thought to be the same as tsurube-otoshi. Her spell cards have many that drop danmaku vertically, which would be the specialty of her species.
Story
- Subterranean Animism
- Main article: Subterranean Animism Story
In the events of Subterranean Animism, she attacks the heroine on her way to the underground by dropping on her. She is disposed of quickly.
Additional Information
Trivia
- Both Kisume and Yamame use the same background image while performing a Spell Card.
- Her Subterranean Animism portrait is very low-res, compared to other ZUN portraits...
Fanon
- Upon the release of the demo of Subterranean Animism, fans immediately dubbed Kisume "Bucket Ranka", named after Ranka Lee from Macross Frontier, due to their similarity in appearance.
- Western fans dubbed her "Bucket Loli".
- Fan artists interpret the clothes she's wearing inside the bucket as either a white collared blouse or a gi.
- Perhaps due to her sharing the same stage as Yamame Kurodani, fanworks with her and Yamame and, somehow, Parsee Mizuhashi, are common.
- Another recent meme has Kisume depicted in fan art with her bucket humorously containing everything she needs to stay alive as well as numerous luxuries, thus making sure she never has to leave it. This parallels the character Sheldon from Jim Davis's U.S. Acres comic strip (also animated as part of Garfield and Friends), a baby chick who refuses to hatch out of his egg but has everything he needs inside of it, though the similarities may be coincidental.
- Some fans tend to portray her inside of other objects, such as a stroller being pushed by Satori, a basket in a flash video, and a bed, still not showing her full outfit.
Spell Cards
Show spell cardsOfficial Profiles
- Subterranean Animism - Character Settings.txt
Official Sources
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- ↑ Cara☆Mel (25 December 2008). "Interview on Subterranean Animism with Cara☆Mel" (in Japanese). http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm5903008. Retrieved 22 August 2011.
